On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 16:41 -0500, Daniel Boyd wrote: > Is there a recommended configuration for virtual disks in Hyper-V? I > have a virtual machine that I set up recently running 6.2 that has > *very* slow disk performance. It took well over an hour to untar > ports.tar.gz. The host server is a few years old, but it's running 3 > RAID-5 7200rpm drives, quad-core Xeon and 32 GB RAM... so not exactly a > slow machine. And this is the only Hyper-V VM it's hosting. > > I've got the virtual disk configured as IDE / VHDX / Expanding (the > Hyper-V defaults). The controller can be IDE or SCSI. The disk format > can be VHD or VHDX. And the disk can be configured as fixed or > expanding. I'm going to try converting the disk to fixed and > defragging my NTFS. > > Any thoughts on IDE vs SCSI and VHD vs VHDX? >
Hi, Can you please tell us which OpenBSD version you're trying to use? Could you please show us the dmesg? You should be using 6.2 as it comes with a driver for the paravirtualized disk interface, hvs(4). Regards, Mike
